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13-letter words containing s, e, a, m, n

  • denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
  • denominations — Plural form of denomination.
  • desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
  • determinators — determiner (def 1).
  • dexamethasone — a type of powerful steroid, used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant
  • diamond snake — a python, Morelia argus, of Australia and New Guinea, with yellow diamond-shaped markings
  • diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
  • diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
  • dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
  • dim statement — (programming)   (From "dimension") A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language that declares the size of an array. E.g. DIM A(100) declares a one-dimensional array with 101 numeric elements (including A(0)). Dim DepartmentNumber As Integer which declares a single (scalar) variable of type Integer.
  • dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • disagreements — Plural form of disagreement.
  • disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
  • discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
  • disembarkment — to go ashore from a ship.
  • disengagement — the act or process of disengaging or the state of being disengaged.
  • disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
  • disestimation — the act of having esteem removed
  • disharmonized — Simple past tense and past participle of disharmonize.
  • disilluminate — to darken
  • dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.
  • disparagement — the act of disparaging.
  • displacements — Plural form of displacement.
  • disseminating — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • dissemination — the act of disseminating, or spreading widely: The Internet allows for the rapid dissemination of information.
  • disseminative — to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse: to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
  • disseminators — Plural form of disseminator.
  • document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • dolman sleeve — a sleeve tapered from a very large armhole to fit closely at the wrist, used on women's garments.
  • dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
  • ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
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